TH T NNIS COUR. T 5 Grcatcst lvlatcll i1/ tllC H istury of tllc W DrIll \VIMBLEDON, JllLY 25 T HE day after I lldgc. beat von Cralnnl in the Davis Cup inter- zone final the London press was black wIth what 111USt have seenled al- most hysterical praise to anybody who had not been at \VÍ1TIbledon on that great Tuesday. "Greatest 111atch of all time!" shouted the N e'lIJS G'thronicle 111an. "In thirty years' experience of \'Vimble- don I have never seen such . , " " TI excItelnen t . 1e most wonderful singles Inatch seen in years!" sang the Daily E "<press. "Greatest 111atch ever played! " cried the Eveni'ng ;Ve'zJJs. Even the Tin es man murmured, "I have never seen a 111atch that CalTIe nearer the heroic." Now that the other gentle- men have quieted down a bit, I myself will simply say that it was the greatest match in the history of the world. Fräulein Rost, Germany's star woman player, "sat clenching her hands and at times clutching her heart," reported the Express. Well, that was me tearing my hair and pòunding the knee of the English lady on my left. The United States has not held the Davis Cup for eleven years, Germany has never reached the challenge round, and here suddenly, with the matches at two-all, they had put into the center court at Wimbledon the two best ama- teur tennis players in the world, wìth the Cup, everybody felt, as the prize for the winner. Budge, of course, had taken von Cramm in the championships final and, only three .days before, had swept Henkel practically up into the stands in the greatest exhibition of un- diminished power and accuracy I have ever seen. But on the other hand he had looked shaky in the double the day before. "Was it fanciful to think yes- terday that the imperturbable Budge was near jittering?" wrote the Times man. No, it wasn't. I t had seemed at times that only Mako's muttered pep talks and grim determination to win had kept Budge going. It had been obvious early that something. was wrong with Budge's right shoulder, for he served no cannonballs until the smashing final game of the doubles match-and took the cheers of the crowd rubbing his shoulder. During the great singles match, however, he at no time fav- ored his right arm and if occasionally his forehand wavered, that was not 111uscular strain, that was von CranUl1. It would be as hard to descrihe the swift, perfect pattern the two Inen con- trived with a white ball as it would be to describe dancing. The 111atch rose above the 111ere giye-and-take of COIn- petition int something so close to art that at the end it was 1110re as if a con- cert had ended than a ten- nis match. The shouts of "Bravo!" when it was over came out of an einotion usu- ally reserved for sOInething Inore important than the spec- tacle of arhJetes, however great, in action. I was S0111e- how reininded of the cheers that went up when the last curtain fell on the first night of "What Price Glory? " You know the kind of cheering I mean. I heard it that T ues- day afternoon for the first time out- side of an auditorium. B UDGE has suddenly matured over here into one of the great cham- pions. There has never been anyone better. What happened on July 20 was that he met a German baron who on that afternoon was also just as good as anyone has ever been. It is Budge's great year. It W4S von Cramm's great day. The impact was terrific. Each man, with all his shots working per- fectly, was out to rush the other off his feet. I t was thrust and thrust rather than thrust and parry. The players al- most never took a defensive stance. Von Cramm once assaulted one of Budge's cannonballs and shot it back for an ace. This double-attack kind of play, to keep going, had to be made up of almost unbelievable shots and re- turns of shots, and it was. One had the impression of passing shots cut off by finishing volleys which in turn were whisked back. The chalk lines were hit two or three times in some of the rallies. An inspired brilliance, amount- ing almost to physical genius, rode on the two racquets. The courage of the two men would have pleased old Sir Thomas Malory, who loved great hearts in single com- bat. The last fine edge of superiority lay, I suppose, in the quality of their determination-von Cramm's is made of Toledo steel, but Budge's is crow- bar iron. When from one-four in the final set he pulled up to four-all, the crowd, which had been overwhelm- ingly for von Cramm, thundered for 41 * * \ 1\t\LIGllr ..,iÞ1J. * ..<""...,. ", þ !} and His Royal Canadians . DINNER-DANCING SUPPER DANCING . Alternating for Supper RALPH ROTCiERS and His Tango-Rumba Band . Dances by MARISSA . RAPHAEL and His Concer,tina . Couvert from 10:30 P.M. . 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